Mentioning names in your essay..

Chedva
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:55:23 +0000

I strongly disagree. If you want to use a person’s name, you should get his or her permission to do so. If you don’t know him or her well enough to ask, you don’t know him or her well enough to use names. Other people have their own privacy rights.

Of course, since you probably listed the lab as employment or an extracurricular, naming the professor whose lab it was is not a problem.